Looks like Yahoo will be invading the smartphone strongly soon and compete in the video chat app market with others like Fring and Skype and QiK and Tango. Reuters reported that the famous web portal’s VP of Mobile division David Katz says that a new Yahoo! Messenger with cross-platform video chat will be heading to Android and iPhone very soon, as it’s presently been submitted to the iTunes App Store for review. It’ll reportedly work over both 3G and Wi-Fi connections and freely conduct video calls with any other device running Yahoo! Messenger, including webcam-equipped PCs. Woot!
This here is a Motorola Defy. Well what does it defy? Engadget was at CTIA to see the show live, and it’s very interesting. The Moto Defy defies water, and live to tell the tale. The Defy is a dust-proof, water and scratch-resistant Android device.
Spec wise, it has a 3.7-inch WVGA scratch-resistant touchpanel, a five megapixel camera (with flash and auto focus), DLNA support and the outfit’s own Blur interface, and runs on Android 2.1.
Mozilla has moved the mobile version of their Firefox 4 from alpha to beta on Android and Maemo this week. With this they promised improvements in stability, performance, and functionality. This version also includes the ‘Layers framework’ that aims to improve scrolling and zooming responsiveness. As you might expect, you get built-in Firefox Sync — basically making this a superset of Firefox Home — and support for HTML5.
Concept phones aren’t the same with concept cars. Usually, when manufacturers show off their concept cars, the design is super futuristic with sleek lines and cues. Then they’ll boast of how many horses the ride has, besides some really futuristic interior which looks like a jetfighter and a dashboard with meters that look like Japanese anime. Concept phones, no they don’t have horses. They’re boring, because they’re something a university student draws up during his free time, and dream about owning one. Like this concept for example. Read more…
A cellphone modder known as hyperX has developed some custom tweaks to improve the quality of the stills and videos of Nokia’s latest touchscreen baby, the N8. First is a hack to enable 720p30 video, a slight improvement over the 720p25 default. That’s demonstrated after the break, along with a continuous autofocus mod. More notable, however, is a tweak to enable nearly uncompressed images. Stock JPEGs coming from the camera clock in around 2MB, but the example image he’s provided (on the other end of that source link) is a rather heftier 11MB — truly a hack that will put your memory card on agony, but it’ll sure make those pixels shine. However, there’s no fair comparison ‘before and after’ of the hack, so we’re not sure how this has improved in our naked eye.
Right, here’s another clamshell phone. Very typical of Japanese phone. I’ve seen a fair share of clamshell phones from the likes of Sharp and Fujitsu. DoCoMo, right a bell? It’ll look very typical when you close it. But when you push it open, that’s where things get interesting. It’s a dual touchscreen smartphone, and it’s a transformer! You’ll know why later.
And that’s a Droid with Cliq’s keyboard. Slider form factor, with hard-cap QWERTY keyboard, something that you’ll find on the Cliq. There’s also 8-Megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, capable of recording some 720p quality of Chinese scandal home video. There’s an extra VGA front-facing camera for your video calling needs if your Chinese girlfriend wanted to check where you are. TD-SCDMA radio, WAPI connectivity with Wi-Fi compatibility, and CMMB TV streaming are also present. The OPhone is powered by a 600MHz TI OMAP3430 with 480 x 854 resolution LCD screen, AGPS and Bluetooth 2.1. Now, will it be only available in China?
Enough with the ‘iPhone vs. Android’ already. Here’s another fact that further cement the proof of Android’s uprising and domination of the world. Android’s exponential growth has today been proven by Nielsen’s statisticians who present us with the above chart of recent US smartphone purchases. It shows that over the six months leading up to August 2010, 32 percent of American new phone buyers had grabbed themselves a device with Google’s OS on board, which is comfortably ahead of RIM at 26 percent and Apple at 25 percent. Read more…
And you thought your iPhone 4 has the best screen out there. Now Sharp has crashed that proudness of yours. Its new IS03 for the Japan’s KDDI au network is powered by Android 2.1, and it has a full 960 x 640 resolution on its 3.5-inch screen. That sounds awfully familiar, like the Apple Retina display, minus the branding moniker. But that’s not all; the new IS03 also has Advanced Super View (ASV) technology that delivers the same kind of viewing angle benefits you could find on an IPS. Read more…
14-Megapixel camera should be a common sight, right? They even tried to advertise it with words like “real” 14-Megapixel CCD with “real” 3x optical zoom, and also 720p video. But what’s so special about Altek’s new product? It’s Android-based, and they’re selling it as a smartphone! Read more…
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